WYCLIFFE KAMANDI v REPUBLIC [2001] KEHC 26 (KLR)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA

AT NAIROBI

MILIMANI LAW COURTS

Criminal Appeal 28 of 1998

(From Original Conviction and Sentence in Criminal Case No.2083 of 1997 of the

Principal Magistrate’s Court at Kibera:

WYCLIFFE KAMANDI .......................................................................................................................APPELLANT

VERSUS

REPUBLIC......................................................................................................................................RESPONDENT

JUDGMENT

The appeal is only against the sentence.

The appellant had no previous conviction.  He was in remand from March, 1997  till December, 1997 and is serving the sentence since then.

ORDER:

The prison sentence is reduced to such a period that will entitle the appellant for his release on 15/3/2001.  The corporal punishment is reduced to three strokes.

Dated and delivered at Nairobi this 15th January, 2001.

V.V. PATEL

JUDGE